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Category: Identity

  • Pride: Speak like Baldwin (1924-1987)

    Celebrating our inspiration #Pride2018 – novelist, visionary, social commentator James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) inspires us to speak #BlackOutAndProud

  • Pride: Create Like Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)

    Celebrating our inspiration #Pride2018 – photographer, artist and visionary Rotimi Fani-Kayode inspires us to create

  • Read: Say it Loud, BlackOut and Proud

    Every day in the run up to Pride we’ll be celebrating those who’s example inspires us to act #BlackOutAndProud Read More

  • Read: ‘B’ your true self

    ‘B’ is a new idea for a duet, seeking to explore the issues of being both black and gay. ‘B’ explores masculinity, intimacy, identity and being your ‘true self’.

  • Event: B

    B is a new duet from GerrardMartinDance which deals with issues around being Black and same-gender loving – exploring masculinity, intimacy, identity and what it is to ‘B’ our true selves.

  • Watch: Black Boy Joy in action

    Last Thursday we had a great time celebrating Black Boy Joy with friends at the Ku Bar in London’s Leicester Square. Thanks to all who made it down, everyone who inspired us on stage, and to Nash from Let’s Talk Queer POC for his work creating the event. #BlackBoyJoy in action right now @Kubar –…

  • Read: BlackOut Inheritance: Part Four

    We got to wondering what knowledge, wisdom, or artefacts we have inherited from other black gay men and what we would like to pass on. Here, Phil and Rob share their inheritance/legacy

  • Long Read: “Who are these Grace Jones looking chicks?” Black Panther: a review

    Iggy Pop, remarking on his early Michigan days in The Stooges circa 1967,  suggested American bands could not get arrested at home until the so-called British invasion happened. As Iggy put it, The endorsement of indigenous African American music(s) – the Blues, Southern Soul – by the “parent culture,” in the guise of The Beatles…